[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9023-9024]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

  Under clause 2 of rule XII, public bills and resolutions of the 
following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows:

           By Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin (for himself and Mr. 
             Boustany):
       H.R. 2688. A bill to block any action from being taken to 
     finalize or give effect to a certain proposed rule governing 
     the Federal child support enforcement program; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mrs. MIMI WALTERS of California (for herself and Mr. 
             Huffman):
       H.R. 2689. A bill to clarify the scope of eligible water 
     resources projects under the Water Resources Development Act 
     of 1986 and the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 
     2014, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
           By Ms. MATSUI:
       H.R. 2690. A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services to promulgate regulations clarifying the 
     circumstances under which, consistent with the standards 
     governing the privacy and security of individually 
     identifiable health information promulgated by the Secretary 
     under sections 262(a) and 264 of the Health Insurance 
     Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, health care 
     providers and covered entities may disclose the protected 
     health information of patients with a mental illness, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
           By Mr. RUIZ:
       H.R. 2691. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjudicate and 
     pay survivor's benefits without requiring the filing of a 
     formal claim, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mrs. BEATTY (for herself, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. 
             Hinojosa, Mr.

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             Meeks, Mr. Clay, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Watson Coleman, 
             Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Israel, Mr. Van 
             Hollen, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Conyers, Ms. 
             Edwards, and Mr. Swalwell of California):
       H.R. 2692. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to make permanent the above-the-line deduction for 
     certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers 
     and to allow Head Start teachers the same above-the-line 
     deduction for supplies as is allowed to elementary and 
     secondary school teachers; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
           By Mr. BRAT (for himself, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. 
             Wittman, Mr. Rigell, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Hurt of 
             Virginia, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Griffith, 
             Mrs. Comstock, Mr. Connolly, and Mr. Sam Johnson of 
             Texas):
       H.R. 2693. A bill to designate the arboretum at the Hunter 
     Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, as 
     the ``Phyllis E. Galanti Arboretum''; to the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. CICILLINE (for himself, Ms. Hahn, Mr. Israel, 
             Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mrs. 
             Capps, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Swalwell of California, Ms. 
             Kuster, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Connolly, Mr. 
             Ellison, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. 
             Pallone, Ms. Meng, Mrs. Bustos, Ms. Frankel of 
             Florida, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Courtney, 
             Ms. Lee, Mr. McNerney, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Bass, Mr. 
             Blumenauer, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Lewis, Ms. Kaptur, 
             Mr. Tonko, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. 
             Jeffries, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Moore, Mr. Takano, Mr. 
             Langevin, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Wilson of 
             Florida, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Cohen, 
             and Ms. Bonamici):
       H.R. 2694. A bill to amend the National Voter Registration 
     Act of 1993 to require each State to ensure that each 
     individual who provides identifying information to the State 
     motor vehicle authority is automatically registered to vote 
     in elections for Federal office held in the State unless the 
     individual does not meet the eligibility requirements for 
     registering to vote in such elections or declines to be 
     registered to vote in such elections, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on House Administration.
           By Mr. CICILLINE (for himself, Mr. Deutch, Ms. Judy Chu 
             of California, Mr. Welch, Mr. Vargas, and Mr. 
             Garamendi):
       H.R. 2695. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to require that return information from tax-exempt 
     organizations be made available in a searchable format and to 
     provide the disclosure of the identity of contributors to 
     certain tax-exempt organizations, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. GRIFFITH:
       H.R. 2696. A bill to amend title XXVII of the Public Health 
     Service Act to require certain health insurance premium 
     increase information submitted to the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services be disclosed to Congress; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Commerce.
           By Mr. GRIJALVA (for himself, Mrs. Davis of California, 
             Mr. Farr, Ms. Moore, Mr. Nadler, and Ms. Norton):
       H.R. 2697. A bill to assist in the conservation of rare 
     felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial 
     resources for the conservation programs of nations within the 
     range of rare felid and rare canid populations and projects 
     of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of 
     rare felid and rare canid populations; to the Committee on 
     Natural Resources.
           By Mr. HOLDING (for himself, Mr. Royce, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. 
             Long, Mr. Knight, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Nunes, Mr. 
             Loudermilk, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Ashford, Mr. 
             Peterson, Mr. Benishek, Mr. Walberg, and Mrs. 
             Blackburn):
       H.R. 2698. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to repeal the excise tax on indoor tanning services; to 
     the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. ISRAEL (for himself, Mr. King of New York, Ms. 
             Esty, Mr. Himes, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Honda, and Mr. 
             Conyers):
       H.R. 2699. A bill to modernize the Undetectable Firearms 
     Act of 1988; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. ISRAEL:
       H.R. 2700. A bill to require all recreational vessels to 
     have and post passenger capacity limits, to amend title 46, 
     United States Code, to authorize States to enter into 
     contracts for the provision of boating safety education 
     services under State recreational boating safety programs, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Transportation 
     and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways 
     and Means, and Natural Resources, for a period to be 
     subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
     consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
     jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
           By Mr. KING of Iowa:
       H.R. 2701. A bill to direct the President to impose duties 
     on merchandise from the People's Republic of China in an 
     amount equivalent to the estimated annual loss of revenue to 
     holders of United States intellectual property rights as a 
     result of violations of such intellectual property rights in 
     China, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
           By Mr. ROKITA (for himself and Mr. Blumenauer):
       H.R. 2702. A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, 
     with respect to passenger motor vehicle crash avoidance 
     information, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Commerce.
           By Mr. RUPPERSBERGER:
       H.R. 2703. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing 
     workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care 
     credit to encourage greater use of quality child care 
     services, to provide incentives for students to earn child 
     care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, 
     and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent 
     care assistance; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California (for herself and 
             Mr. Meehan):
       H.R. 2704. A bill to establish a Community-Based 
     Institutional Special Needs Plan demonstration program to 
     target home and community-based care to eligible Medicare 
     beneficiaries, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
     and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
     the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
     provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
     concerned.
           By Mr. THORNBERRY:
       H.R. 2705. A bill to clarify the definition of navigable 
     waters, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
           By Ms. TITUS (for herself, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. 
             Cramer, and Mr. Stewart):
       H.R. 2706. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     provide priority for the establishment of new national 
     cemeteries by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. WALKER:
       H.R. 2707. A bill to ensure a legislative solution for 
     those individuals who may be affected by ObamaCare's unlawful 
     implementation, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Commerce.
           By Mr. WILSON of South Carolina:
       H.R. 2708. A bill to direct the Director of National 
     Intelligence to conduct a study on cyber attack standards of 
     measurement; to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent 
     Select).

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